Sherlock Holmes fans, get ready to see an immersive mash-up of three of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories (“A Scandal in Bohemia,” “The Red-Headed League,” and “The Adventure of The Copper Beeches”) woven together in Mystery Lit’s “Holmes, Sherlock and The Consulting Detective” adapted by Jonathan Josephson. The creative team at Unbound Productions (creators of the “Wicked Lit” and “History Lit”) is bringing Sherlock Holmes to the historic Santa Anita Train Depot where a 90-person audience will follow the three versions of Holmes catch the culprit. Director Paul Millet, along with Josephson and Jeff G. Rack, founded Unbound Productions with the mission to adapt literature. After several years of Wicked Lit (yearly shows based on classic horror literature) the team branched out to History Lit in 2012 and then began discussing what their next venture would be. “The idea of mystery lit kept coming back up. First,...
- 5/31/2017
- backstage.com
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We’ve scoured the scenes of Sherlock special, The Abominable Bride, to dig out its nerdy details. Spoilers ahead…
Warning: contains spoilers for The Abominable Bride.
If, by the time Sherlock special The Abominable Bride came around, your usually-shining powers of observation had been dulled by New Year’s indulgence, never fear.
We’ve hunted around the episode with (mostly) clear heads and stumbled upon a few fun titbits, from Wilder the Diogenes butler, to set design jokes, nods to Doyle’s original stories, Paget’s illustrations, previous Sherlock episodes and more…
1. This dilated pupil (we'd suggest Cumberbatch’s rather than Freeman’s?) is the first hint-in-hindsight that what’s to follow involves narcotics.
2. Both A Study In Pink and The Abominable Bride start with Watson waking up from a nightmare of his time in an Afghan war, centuries apart.
3. Joining the regular cast’s Victorian counterparts...
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We’ve scoured the scenes of Sherlock special, The Abominable Bride, to dig out its nerdy details. Spoilers ahead…
Warning: contains spoilers for The Abominable Bride.
If, by the time Sherlock special The Abominable Bride came around, your usually-shining powers of observation had been dulled by New Year’s indulgence, never fear.
We’ve hunted around the episode with (mostly) clear heads and stumbled upon a few fun titbits, from Wilder the Diogenes butler, to set design jokes, nods to Doyle’s original stories, Paget’s illustrations, previous Sherlock episodes and more…
1. This dilated pupil (we'd suggest Cumberbatch’s rather than Freeman’s?) is the first hint-in-hindsight that what’s to follow involves narcotics.
2. Both A Study In Pink and The Abominable Bride start with Watson waking up from a nightmare of his time in an Afghan war, centuries apart.
3. Joining the regular cast’s Victorian counterparts...
- 1/4/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
You can keep your Cumberbatch and Rathbone. Of the 75-odd actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on screen, Jeremy Brett is the man
You can keep Basil Rathbone, fond as I am of him. You can keep Robert Downey, Jr, Benedict Cumberbatch and Peter Cushing. You can even keep Michael Caine in Without A Clue (my secret favourite portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on the big screen). You know why you can keep them? Because, in exchange, I get Jeremy Brett, the Sherlock for the connoisseurs.
Jeremy Brett is the Sherlock Holmes of my childhood, and perhaps (as with the Doctor or James Bond) we simply attach ourselves to the first one we see. But I don't think so. In the ITV series which began in 1984, and ran until a year before Brett's early death in 1995, Sherlock Holmes was as close to his literary roots as he has ever been on screen.
You can keep Basil Rathbone, fond as I am of him. You can keep Robert Downey, Jr, Benedict Cumberbatch and Peter Cushing. You can even keep Michael Caine in Without A Clue (my secret favourite portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on the big screen). You know why you can keep them? Because, in exchange, I get Jeremy Brett, the Sherlock for the connoisseurs.
Jeremy Brett is the Sherlock Holmes of my childhood, and perhaps (as with the Doctor or James Bond) we simply attach ourselves to the first one we see. But I don't think so. In the ITV series which began in 1984, and ran until a year before Brett's early death in 1995, Sherlock Holmes was as close to his literary roots as he has ever been on screen.
- 5/14/2012
- by Natalie Haynes
- The Guardian - Film News
It seems Guy Ritchies’ Sherlock Holmes sequel has found itself a subtitle beyond the standard number 2 tag – at least according to E!Online, who are reporting that the eagerly awaited film has been dubbed Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
Now despite sites like E!, Heyuguys, and Geektyrant decrying the title as “lame,” I kind of like it. It feels very much like the old-school nomenclature that marked the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and sits nicely with titles like A Study In Scarlet, The Red-Headed League and The Sign of the Four…
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry and Jared Harris. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on December 16th 2011.
Now despite sites like E!, Heyuguys, and Geektyrant decrying the title as “lame,” I kind of like it. It feels very much like the old-school nomenclature that marked the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and sits nicely with titles like A Study In Scarlet, The Red-Headed League and The Sign of the Four…
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Stephen Fry and Jared Harris. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on December 16th 2011.
- 2/16/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Directed by the British film-maker who made the recent cockney gangland drama 44 Inch Chest, Henry's Crime has the same basic plot as Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks, which, in turn, drew on Conan Doyle's The Red-Headed League. A dimwitted toll booth clerk (Keanu Reeves) in upstate New York is jailed after taking the rap for a bank robbery staged by an old school friend and comes out determined to rob the same Buffalo bank. For this, he recruits an old lag (James Caan) he meets inside and an unreliable thickhead who survived the earlier heist. The plan is to use a tunnel dug by bootleggers during prohibition, which reaches from a changing room in the theatre next door to the bank vault.
No effort is made to conceal his plans either from the bank's security man who made the arrest five years earlier or from the leading actress...
No effort is made to conceal his plans either from the bank's security man who made the arrest five years earlier or from the leading actress...
- 1/16/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
“My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so,” Sherlock Holmes tells his sidekick Dr. Watson at the conclusion of Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Red-Headed League.” It’s one of Doyle’s periodic hints that his hero uses his brilliance to placate a tortured psyche. Doyle’s most famous character has an unparalleled genius for detection, but he’s also kind of a mess, a drug-abusing weirdo kept from turning into a total recluse only by Watson’s friendship and a steady parade of mysteries ...
- 12/23/2009
- avclub.com
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